tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post8138512438672887176..comments2024-03-17T19:32:26.043+00:00Comments on Daughter of the Soil: No I haven't given upRebsie Fairholmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17811733792196954188noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-48073135003502348122010-11-03T04:51:08.077+00:002010-11-03T04:51:08.077+00:00YEAY! You're back! Oh this is excellent. I ...YEAY! You're back! Oh this is excellent. I was afraid you were gone forever -- since you took that year off, I've started my own blog and am took tips from you -- your post about the blog counter has been inspirational. Thank you for starting back up again, and now I have hours of good pondering material!plothttp://www.astheplotthickens.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-58058082482660129722010-04-09T13:31:19.195+01:002010-04-09T13:31:19.195+01:00Great to see you back, Rebsie :)
Shame that your ...Great to see you back, Rebsie :)<br /><br />Shame that your red pea programme has hit a snag, but I'm sure your fastidiousness will see it through in the end.<br /><br />I wonder, did you stand in your garden and shout B*ll*cks anyway before deciding to be all sensible and work with the other options left open to you?VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-4549617895463742932010-04-01T14:54:12.794+01:002010-04-01T14:54:12.794+01:00Welcome back!
Those black tomatoes are really im...Welcome back! <br /><br />Those black tomatoes are really impressive - I could definitely invest in some seed for a tomato that stunning, if it also tastes good.<br /><br />Interesting about the red pod peas; purple-podded peas have a different genetic make-up, presumably?The Allotment Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06785515639672623768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-9134552131727343402010-03-31T17:19:06.307+01:002010-03-31T17:19:06.307+01:00@Jeremy - Aw,shucks.
Wait a minute, if Rebsie swa...@Jeremy - Aw,shucks.<br /><br />Wait a minute, if Rebsie swaps her guitar for a fretless banjo, that might make an excellent title for her next downhome paean to Pisum. <br /><br />Need sugar, failing fast..........Rhizowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-76419504888440505332010-03-31T13:18:39.158+01:002010-03-31T13:18:39.158+01:00@Rhizowen: having heard you, I can vouch it would ...@Rhizowen: having heard you, I can vouch it would be A Good Thing.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04639265958695262241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-34413975326527499102010-03-31T13:12:18.680+01:002010-03-31T13:12:18.680+01:00I am so happy you are back!!! I love this blog.I am so happy you are back!!! I love this blog.Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10177666257692870735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-31988285101048370212010-03-31T12:40:00.631+01:002010-03-31T12:40:00.631+01:00Good looking website and great research.
Black on...Good looking website and great research.<br /><br />Black on white beats <br />white on black every time. <br /><br />I've been growing Alan Kapuler's peas for a couple of years - definite differences in flavour, as well as other characteristics. Your efforts are totally complementary and thoroughly worthwhile. <br /><br />Hearing you sing and play has made me consider dusting off my 12 string, which I haven't touched in over 10 years. I'll let the world judge whether that's a good or a bad thing.Rhizowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-27510332676067556502010-03-31T10:23:47.547+01:002010-03-31T10:23:47.547+01:00YAY - you're back.
Lovely red pea pods there...YAY - you're back. <br /><br />Lovely red pea pods there; has brightened my day.Zazen999https://www.blogger.com/profile/15109767086515908438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-49422182789261169502010-03-31T08:51:31.552+01:002010-03-31T08:51:31.552+01:00You're back!! Welcome!!You're back!! Welcome!!Soilmanhttp://www.soilman.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-22406201824664063502010-03-29T17:05:34.818+01:002010-03-29T17:05:34.818+01:00Hi Rebsie!
It's great to see you back, and ye...Hi Rebsie!<br /><br />It's great to see you back, and yes the new design looks good. I'm looking forward to reading more.Patrickhttp://www.patnsteph.net/weblognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-20441573320288354802010-03-28T19:58:34.953+01:002010-03-28T19:58:34.953+01:00Great to see you back Rebsie! I'm taking a sab...Great to see you back Rebsie! I'm taking a sabbatical myself, so can't complain about yours!<br /><br />Just bought your albums by the way. (via Paypal to you, with a Northampton address).. Put your squiggle on them for me will you :)<br /><br />Best<br />GreenmantleGreenmantlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869745942011646851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-23332506857251077632010-03-28T19:16:33.343+01:002010-03-28T19:16:33.343+01:00Yay! Great to see you back. And the new design is ...Yay! Great to see you back. And the new design is much easier on the eye.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04639265958695262241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-92223155511308823062010-03-28T16:36:38.927+01:002010-03-28T16:36:38.927+01:00Wonderful reading a post of yours again :-)
Just m...Wonderful reading a post of yours again :-)<br />Just made you a contact on FlickrAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-90764973235652883512010-03-27T21:39:43.492+00:002010-03-27T21:39:43.492+00:00Thank you everyone for the lovely welcome, it'...Thank you everyone for the lovely welcome, it's very much appreciated.<br /><br />Robert - that's a very astute comment and I think you're absolutely right. I suspect that modern commercial peas have a very narrow genepool and these older dimpled and speckled types have been cast aside in the last century or two and not used in breeding work. I think one of the reasons for this is a change in gardeners' tastes. These days we like a bit of colour in our gardens so we seek out the ones with purple two-tone flowers and speckly seeds. To the Victorian gardener however, the two-tone flowers and speckles would be associated with field peas, which are tough and starchy and would have seemed old-fashioned and uninteresting to them. They were probably more attracted to the pure snowy white flowers and bright green peas (both recessive traits) of the marrowfat peas which also tasted sweeter. As I discovered, crossing a modern commercial pea with Golden Sweet produced spectacular diversity with lots of traits not seen in either parent - so I think they must have been very different lines and enjoyed a good shake-up. <br /><br />You're also right about edible pods being recessive, and caused by a defective gene which fails to give the pod its protective fibre layer. In fact there are two unrelated recessive genes which control pod edibility, and they probably arose from completely separate mutations as they are slightly different in the part of the fibre layer they 'fail' to produce. To get a truly fibreless pod you need both of them. If you have one and not the other, you get a partially edible pod (the fibre is reduced but not eradicated - I think Golden Sweet falls into this category).Rebsie Fairholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17811733792196954188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-78752487336879626872010-03-27T14:32:33.706+00:002010-03-27T14:32:33.706+00:00Come to think of it, the seeds of the old mangetou...Come to think of it, the seeds of the old mangetouts I have (Goldensweet, Bijou, Carouby de Mausanne) all show 'primitive' charactersitics - speckles, dimples - and I've been thinking that they're probably and independent group which wasn't crossed with 'normal' peas till later. If edible pods are recessive - which is what you might suspect if it's a damaged gene which can't provide a template for the hard inner layer - then in the days before Mendelian genetics they wouldn't have understood why crosses failed, and might well have given up on any such idea and left them to develop separately.Robert Brenchleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-53970636091049002352010-03-27T14:14:45.012+00:002010-03-27T14:14:45.012+00:00Glad to see you're back! I'd gathered you ...Glad to see you're back! I'd gathered you were snowed under, and I know the feeling. I'm trying 30-40 pea varieties myself this year, depending on how many I can squeeze in, and I'll be reporting on my own blog.Robert Brenchleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17006227551531676492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-992048634593191072010-03-27T14:04:46.801+00:002010-03-27T14:04:46.801+00:00Ooh, you're into conlang? That's so neat!...Ooh, you're into conlang? That's so neat! And I'm very glad you're back. I loved reading about your breeding projects.Harmonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105846442509828835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-72235607482118485412010-03-27T09:57:43.431+00:002010-03-27T09:57:43.431+00:00Welcome back! I like a white background. In your...Welcome back! I like a white background. In your absence I had to give in to old age and get reading glasses so the black text on white really helps!<br />Look forward to the pea posts.Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12841961223771293021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-45598361074184065802010-03-27T09:39:58.352+00:002010-03-27T09:39:58.352+00:00Hello. :) I discovered your blog, too, just before...Hello. :) I discovered your blog, too, just before you had to take a break. I'm delighted to see that you're back.<br /><br />The flowers on that red-podded pea are so beautiful!<br /><br />I've had a look at some of your photographs on Flickr and looking forward to viewing the rest at leisure.... I like gravestones too. :O) Chianna in the garden is gorgeous. :)Lesleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05908084484202064053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-56544556331848665342010-03-27T08:35:40.161+00:002010-03-27T08:35:40.161+00:00Good that your back to blogging, if you search for...Good that your back to blogging, if you search for free blogger templates there is loads and Blogger are changing templates soon in that you will have more control. <br />Also, Blogger is linked in with Picassa which has loads of extra's and IMO is better than flickr. But best of all is if you set your Google Profile it will show up in Buzz and Greader when you update.Computer Blog 2023https://www.blogger.com/profile/09664565663165126154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-47882967887545635342010-03-27T07:16:57.408+00:002010-03-27T07:16:57.408+00:00And I came to your blog yesterday in the hope that...And I came to your blog yesterday in the hope that yu had updated it. Great to have you back. Amazing tomato picture!Matronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07705506930308472527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-69153430664847848452010-03-27T06:57:26.110+00:002010-03-27T06:57:26.110+00:00New layout is fantastic, don't sweat about the...New layout is fantastic, don't sweat about the loss of black background. Welcome back.BilboWagginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06913801147278606148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-15702324203969460562010-03-27T06:17:08.724+00:002010-03-27T06:17:08.724+00:00Yay, you're back!Yay, you're back!Judenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-65293847700037497822010-03-27T02:50:37.909+00:002010-03-27T02:50:37.909+00:00Glad you're back. I am looking forward to more...Glad you're back. I am looking forward to more pea breeding stories.Sarahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23047857.post-32087069073341703442010-03-27T01:24:26.931+00:002010-03-27T01:24:26.931+00:00Your red-podded peas are amazing. I found your bl...Your red-podded peas are amazing. I found your blog last year, just before you went on hiatus, and I'm so glad you are back. I find your pea breeding work utterly fascinating.Katxenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12445574055523829933noreply@blogger.com